again many women we believe are going to stand up to the cross part. of the fish out of its population and actually stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. live from from moscow this is arctic glad to have you back with us. conceived as a beacon of transparency and prosperity it has since attracted criticism as a symbol of bankers agreed millions have already been spent on the european central bank's new h.q. in frankfurt but more are being poured in and the delays are dragging the project down national went to investigate. at a time when many europeans are unable to pay their mortgages and are kicked out of

their homes and spain's forced to approve a suspension of addictions after a woman killed herself in desperation the european central bank is preparing for a house warming party the european treasury's symbolic new building will be the tallest on frankford skyline when it's complete but so far it seems the projects faced sky high criticism first of all for its ten digit price tag. we think the project is to shoot an ugly we asked the e.c.b. to use its money more carefully something taxpayers intrusted to them. stephen meister from germany is part of reason doesn't see any reason to spend that much money on a piece of real estate but he says he sees a reasonable explanation of why the sky's the limit for the european union's economic monopoly they never run out of money it's they just come to me and the other taxpayers they go you have to pay more you're paying more of it more or maybe

because it's the e.c.b. the european central bank just print the money and while some may see an upside down logic here german m.p. mr scheffler explains it's more than just a piece of architecture. the e.c.b. wants a palace a building to demonstrate his power through a million more million less makes no difference to make a statement about its power and credibility but that's a notion that's taken a serious knock in recent times the seventeen nation euro zone's unemployment is at a record high brussels and seized on a stereo to measures which the government's cut spending and raise taxes increase in peoples and as well as euro skepticism here it is future european central bank headquarters here in germany and their building was initially supposed to be a symbol of integrity and competence efficiency and transparency of the e.u. main financial institution but many now gloat that the project that has already far

behind shadow and over budget may be sending a slightly different message bottom line cynics have compared the bank's future premises with the biblical story of the tower of babel it was meant to reach up to heaven but ended up instead abandoned left as a symbol of hubris and conceit if you look at it it's considered i guess modern architecture sort of looks like sort of like it's been flat and squeezed and turn around and it looks like it might even sort of collapse on itself so it's kind of maybe a fitting symbol i think it's very possible that the euro itself the currency may not even be around by the time. when they finish that building the construction is do you full completion by twenty fourteen and it's already known that the president of the e.c.b. will have a room on the forty first floor some say he will not just see a breathtaking c.t. panorama he'll also have a bird's eye view of the turbulent ups and downs of he's troubled empire the e.u. fated euro zone. nazi germany and now time to take

a look at some other headlines making news around the world this hour. at least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured in twin suicide car bomb attacks outside a church at a military base in northern nigeria new organization has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet churches and security forces are frequent targets of extremists fighting for an islamic state in the country. rebels fighting for control of the democratic republic of congo have held a first round of talks with government officials but ago she asians are being mediated by uganda last week the group known as m twenty three seized control of the city of goma the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand people displaced. severe storms that battering the u.k. have claimed at least two lives and flooded more than eight hundred homes people in wales and cornel have been evacuated to safety as major roads were closed off and

train services canceled weather forecasters say there is no end in sight and predict more rainfall in the coming days. and a car has a plowed into a california family's home in the middle of the night as they were sound asleep causing substantial damage to the house authorities reported there were a total of nine people inside who were lucky to escape on harmed a twenty four year old woman has been charged with drinking and driving. for millions in the u.k. the cold winter may be more biting than ever soaring energy prices look set to drag people into what's being hailed as fuel poverty where the only way to stay warm is an extra blanket new year's artie's laura smith with the story in full. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this plot it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she

going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take a few libel from the ceiling and i only use one in my room it's only sitting in my kitchen or my you just one like trying to cut down. off the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face this year's even bigger challenge five of the six big energy companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founds and

people into fuel poverty that's on top of an estimated seven million people who already have one survey ahead of this winter found energy prices were the biggest concern for consumers ninety percent said the cost of energy was their main household worry ahead of rising costs for food petrol and mortgage payment julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to chart the inexorable rise since she moved in in two thousand and seven she's afraid that this winter her children's health will suffer again in a way that when accomplice or his blanket his socks and the children just put it on the moon we will call two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were sick. because i tried to be mean. while julie's children are getting sick the energy companies a profiting british gas whose prices are up six percent is on track to make one

point four billion pounds in profits this year and e.t.f. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent announced profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go in your bill from somebody who was i don't know nor a smith r.t. london. the west so controversial use of unmanned drones in hotspots around the world work said to go on with the british government now developing a new technology but as i. found out some locals close it close to the testing ground don't share their government's excitement. for victims in tribal regions of pakistan yemen and afghanistan it's the last sound heard before bloodshed in sue's a constant worrying that gets louder before it becomes visible but for residents of the quiet coastal town of abba porth in west wales the sound is synonymous with

daily life this is the area where the r.a.f. tests its watch keep a drone from as you can see there's one taking off behind me as we speak in good weather the drones take off throughout the day and during the night and as you can hear the noise is so high pitched and dominating that local residents have called this area the buzz box. for local people the noise is a great disturbance because. and whining noise send they fly over this quite regularly the welsh government build it as a state of the art technology park that would create four to five hundred much needed jobs for the community the reality a half deserted site where the ministry of defense employs about thirty people to help test the watch keeper there is a sense of frustration in the area a number of people who were for in the beginning now opposed to it because they

didn't realise the level of nuisance that there was going to be there is behind the development of drones say it means less soldiers come home from war zones in body bags but civilian casualties piling up we know from pakistan that somewhere around two to three thousand people have been killed in trying strikes because of these unmanned systems it's a lot easier to go to war and therefore there will be much more warfare and the world isn't safe the british government has already spent two billion pounds on development but they're about to commit another two billion on a new armed drone called. it could be better spent it could be spent on hospitals and schools rather than on killing machines despite drastic government cuts on welfare spending financing for the drones isn't up for debate to the dismay of locals the daily testing along with the bloodcurdling noise drones on.

r t west wales. separatists gain support across europe or britain is no exception surely we talked to margaret thatcher's former economics minister about the trend. trimmings in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms but we didn't use the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding

objects like reverse forests and different stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a guilt it says it wants to lift a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the course was revived as an instrument. of stop the fall is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called.

to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic there. next goal is to tour broad they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it little you cheer it up and they were. sharing it oh you. did that was sure to say can ya who was you think gang are ok. but now it is a moody part of the song and not the actual through it singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like it vinnie

and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most of us. from two hundred years ago until soppy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. it wasn't so long ago that the euro skeptic was a form of insult something to be derided and sneered at but in the midst of a protracted euro crisis with no end in sight and with the case with. the king increasingly uncertain no one's laughing now we're joined by former conservative

tells the lord lawson right from the very start that the european project was in your words to fail so thank you very much for joining us why those words why doing to fail i was trying to warn my friends and colleagues across the european union not to go down this road because it was doomed to fail it was doomed to fail because you cannot have a currency union without a political. and you cannot have a political union in a democracy and list the people of the country wish to move away from independent nation states towards a. political union and united states of europe which is what the architects of danceable do i live fearful that people don't believe nice they don't want you to be great majority of the people if you are don't want this political union. and they're not likely to want it there for the currency union can't work and therefore you shouldn't buckle now at the beginning we saw euro skeptics there very much lost

their opinions last that why weren't those points that you were putting across at the time ignored i think the time. there were a lot of people didn't understand what monetary union really meant what it would lead to what you've raised no what was necessary if it was to be even hopefully successful i don't think. even with a political union there would be any economic benefit but at least you could sustain it with a full political union. going to happen i believe many people didn't understand what the ins and outs were there were some people who thought oh well it probably won't happen because this was a said some years before it was due to happen and people probably wouldn't happen and also there has been a. for many years in through out here an igloo you need only kingdom a form of political correctness in which it was felt that anything which was

european was a noble ideal and anybody who criticize it was desperately politically incorrect or appear as it was so to the public is that with its basis in peace and democracy if the public didn't know any better he did. i think the principal promoters of it knew that it was a gamble and in my judgment it was a grossly irresponsible gamble but they were gambling they wanted their objective and had been for a long time was a full political union united states view and they thought that the room or service logic would of monetary union would force the political union to arrive and that's what they wanted the reason why it was an irresponsible companies because as we see if in fact the peoples of europe don't want the going to get

a political then you have an economic disaster and that is what we have now but they of course one of the defects of the europeans the european movement not all but the european people european movement the people mostly but over the years there's been a fundamental contempt for democracy. they believe they know better than. republican they were the main culprits well there were a number of the architect reluctant although i knew very well he was by. opposite numbers finance french finance minister when i was johnson extract here for a number of years. very. dedicated man. who believed passionately he was. responsible for it the there were also other imperatives i don't want to single out individuals particularly there are other imperatives which drove both different bonds different crew france and drove germany.

and everything that happens within the european union is always a matter of what france and germany want they have the heart of the matter they are the great alliance maybe it's a marriage of convenience not of love but nevertheless it is that marriage which is the core of the european union the germans believed in europe passionately they. felt particularly the older generation it gradually changing they felt enormous guilt over the behavior of germany during the twentieth century the two world wars which germany was responsible for and therefore they felt that germany was not trusted germany had to reinvent itself as not been just new being europe that was the only way germany could exercise a political influence in a political power which was commensurate with its economic strength. so there was

why germany wanted to be as it were not just european it's not so much the case with the german people. it's a political dots and that is why the church of the germans of never put this thing to a referendum in germany because they know that the people are with them but the political class the leadership. of that mind let's talk about the case position within the has there ever been a time when then the sit as being so in question now there hasn't and i tell you why because the nature of the european union is changing and it's changing in a way that we would never of joined it probably in the first place if it had been like that when we joined and it is having been an organization which was something which we could happily live with it is now moving towards. a different kind of organization which we would not want to be part of we wouldn't have good relations

with friendly relations and trade with the rest but not be part of it if you like it may be past its sell by date we say past its sell by date so all we know likely it's a referendum in the near future i think it's quite likely it's not up to me obviously it's up to the government but i i think it is quite likely and the question is really what the terms of the river of them will be what do you think. well it look as if the terms of the referendum if it comes in we shall see but what it looks is being is a referendum. some way to empower the government to insist on hey repatriation of a number of powers away from the european union back to the member states if they wish them and the united kingdom in particular does wish them to be repatriated and the problem is of course that you have your referendum and the referendum.

would undoubtedly be one hundred but then what happens because you have that's not binding on the european union you say there's a referendum same apartment be repatriated back from the center to from brussels to london to simplified language but what happens when the european years a low sorry john we don't do that it would be that the others were then wanted inevitably to a dismantling of the european dream and we don't want to do it so then where are you so it doesn't solve the problem and i think there will come a time when there needs to be a referendum on the basic question of do we remain in the european union or do we go outside and say the negotiator and i make a will relationship with the european union but from outside well david cameron as the man he dismantled. well you don't going to what david cameron will be doing if

he does do it in we will see is not dismantling the you i mean he will presumably continue with the other members we should too but it will be a different relationship between the united kingdom and he will be one not one of membership one of some kind of association why now everything's that's going to look the public when it comes to the i think it's. the public feel that there are a whole lot of petty restrictions which come to us from europe or european law which we can't change which we have to go along with even though we ourselves don't agree with them and they don't like that the they don't like the they feel the public feel also that the decisions of british judges are actually better decisions than the decisions of the european court and yet we have to be subordinated to the

european court and also i think that they can see although we're not of course part of the euro zone we're not thank god thank goodness we had the good sense to keep out of the simple currency but nevertheless they can see that the single currency is a mess to europe the european economy is a mess and therefore it is not particularly inspirational so. it's a laugh that at the beginning you know vindicated that a lot of what you were warning about has come to pass i've always found a position. on your pick stream comfortable. for a different reason. than the debates in the house of commons during my time there and this is continued to some extent have been extremely polarized there have been the euro fanatics who think the europe can do no wrong and everything is european must be better than anything is national a little bit

a whole group of xenophobes who hate foreigners who hate europe and think it's the work of the devil and the. they they both speak with loud voices both those groups over people in the middle like myself who are in no way hostile to europe as i said i live after a time in france and i voiced. enjoy the company of many european friends people and who say look at the thing objectively and say what makes sense what is makes economic sense both the united kingdom and indeed for europe when i tried to persuade the european countries not to go when i was trying not to go down the route of money it wasn't because i thought it would suck britain into monetary union i knew perfectly well that we would never join i was trying to prevent my european friends from making these big mistake for their road sakes they clung to

come back to reality and i think it's time to come back to reality yes and to learn the lessons and thank you very much for joining us. it was not the military. side to contract with the unit of the huge contract. it was not the operation to secure and rebuild the devastated country caliber company field taxpayers for its contract work in iraq. it was the campaign for making billions of dollars. and forty bills. one billion dollars iraq for sale. for profiteers. wealthy british style.

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